April, 2012

Few know about a fea­ture that has been intro­duced to md since a few years now: The write-intent bitmap. This might be mainly because it’s not enabled by default (more about why later) and isn’t really vis­i­ble in day-to-day oper­a­tions. So what is it exactly? Taken fromÂ md(4): If con­fig­ured, the bitmap is used to record […]